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Floras of particular districts we may mention, especially^ the 

 classical Histoire des Plantes de Dauphine, by Villars, professor 

 at Strasburg, who had carefully examined the Alps which divide 

 Italy from Switzerland, the Vogeses, and the south of France, 

 along with Chaix, a clergyman at Gap, and Clapier, physician 

 at Grenoble, He died in 1813. The work was published in 

 four volumes, 1786 to 1789? at Grenoble, with 55 copper- 

 plates. The Histoire Abregee des Plantes des Pyrenees, 

 Thbulouse, 1813, in octavo, also belongs to the class of ap- 

 proved works, 



Among Italian Floras j the following deserve the most re- 

 spectful notice, namely, the Flora Pedemontana of Charles 

 Allioni, professor at Turin, who died 1804, published in 

 three volumes, at Turiuj 1785, with 92 copperplates, folio ; 

 the Flora Neapolitana, Naples, 1811, in folio, by Mifchael 

 Tenore, professor at Naples; and the Flora Ticinensis, Pa- 

 via, 1816, by Dominicus Nocca, professor at Pavia^ and John 

 Baptiste Balbis, professor at Lyons, Pavia, 1816. The Si- 

 cilian Flora has found its votaries in Antonin Bivona-Ber- 

 nardi, who published Plantarum Sicularum cent. 1-^-2, Paler- 

 mo, 1806, 1810, in octavo ; and Stirpium Rariorum in Sici- 

 lia provenientium Manip. 1 — 4, Palermo^ 1813 to 1816, in 

 quarto ; and in Constantin Schmalz Rafirtesque, who pub- 

 lished Caratteri di alcuni Generi di Piante^ Palermo, 1810, 

 octavo. 



The Flora of Portugal, which had long been neglected, 

 was carefully edited by Felix Avellar Brotero, professor at 

 Coimbraj in his Flora Lusitanica, Lisbon, 1804, two volumes; 

 arid by Henry Frederick Link, and the Count Hoffrnanseggi 

 in the Flore PortugaisCj Berlin, 1809 to 1814, folio. 



Great Britain can boast of an excellent work, with copper- 

 plates, on the native Flora, published under the title English 

 Botany, by J ames Sowerby and Sir J ames Edward Smith, in 

 thirty-six volumes, from 1790 to 1814. The latter author 

 also published a Flora Britannica, in three volumes, London, 

 1800 to 1804, which possesses distinguished scientific merit. 

 Not less meritorious is the Muscologia Britannica, by William 

 Jackson Hooker and Thomas Taylor, London, 1818. 



